CN115429165A

CN115429165A - Water tank and robot with same

Info

Publication number: CN115429165A
Application number: CN202211034495.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 许超; 贺智威; 张海南; 黄方艺; 潘家琛
Original assignee: Candela Shenzhen Technology Innovations Co Ltd
Current assignee: Candela Shenzhen Technology Innovations Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-26
Filing date: 2022-08-26
Publication date: 2022-12-06

Abstract

The invention relates to a water tank, which comprises a tank body, wherein the tank body is used for containing water; the air suction device can suck air into the box body; the movable plate is rotationally connected with the side wall of the box body, and the movable plate can rotate by the buoyancy of water in the box body so as to plug or open the air suction butt joint port; the filter box is communicated with a sewage suction butt joint formed in the box body, a sewage suction pipe is connected to the sewage suction butt joint, and the filter box can filter sundries sucked by the sewage suction pipe. When the robot body washes the ground, the device that induced drafts inhales remaining sewage in ground to the water tank in, in remaining sewage in ground gets into the filter box through the soil pick-up butt joint, filters the debris of filter box in with the sewage for debris are stayed in filtering the box, thereby avoid the butt joint in the debris shutoff box. When the inside water yield of water tank is more, the buoyancy of water makes the fly leaf rotate to induced draft to the kneck, and the shutoff is induced drafted to the kneck, when preventing to induced draft the device and induced draft, inhales water and induced drafts to the kneck, avoids the device that induced drafts to damage because of intaking.

Description

Water tank and robot with same

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of cleaning robots, in particular to a water tank and a robot with the water tank.

Background

The existing indoor cleaning robot comprises a robot body and a workstation, the water tank is arranged on the robot body, the robot body can be prevented from returning to the workstation for multiple times to perform self-cleaning work when the robot body washes the ground, and the work efficiency is improved. Before the robot body washes the ground, clean water needs to be sprayed onto the rolling brush installed on the robot body, the rolling brush is wetted, and the rolling brush washes the ground. After the floor is washed, the residual sewage on the ground is sucked into the water tank through the air suction device, so that the ground is kept dry.

However, the sewage remaining on the ground is very likely to contain impurities, and the impurities may enter the water tank along with the sewage remaining on the ground and block the butt joint in the water tank. And, because the device that induced drafts communicates with the water tank, if the water yield is more in the water tank, when the device that induced drafts, probably with the water suction in the water tank inside the device that induced drafts to destroy the device that induced drafts, lead to cleaning machines people unable normal work.

Disclosure of Invention

Based on this, it is necessary to be very easily contain debris in the remaining sewage in ground, in debris got into the water tank along with the remaining sewage in ground, probably the butt joint mouth in the water tank to and when induced draft the device and induced draft, probably inhale the device of induced draft inside with the water in the water tank, thereby destroy the device of induced draft, lead to the unable problem of normal work of cleaning machines people, provide a water tank.

An embodiment of the present application provides a water tank, the water tank includes:

the box body is used for being connected with the robot body, and water is contained in the box body;

the air suction device is communicated with an air suction butt joint opening formed in the side wall of the box body and can suck air in the box body;

the movable plate is positioned in the box body and is rotationally connected with the side wall of the box body, and the buoyancy of water in the box body can enable the movable plate to rotate so as to plug or open the air suction butt joint; and

the filter box is located the inside of box to with the interior wall connection of box, and the soil pick-up butt joint mouth intercommunication of seting up on the inner wall of filter box and box, soil pick-up butt joint mouth department is connected with the soil pick-up pipe, the filter box can filter the inspiratory debris of soil pick-up pipe.

When the water tank is mounted on the robot body and used for washing the ground, the box body is connected with the robot body, and water is contained in the box body. When washing ground, at first spray the brush of robot installation with the inside clear water of box on, drench the brush, the brush carries out ground cleaning work, washes the ground and finishes the back, inhales to the water tank through the device that induced drafts remaining sewage in with ground for ground keeps dry, accomplishes and washes ground work. Because the device that induced drafts communicates with the butt joint mouth that induced drafts that the box lateral wall was seted up, thereby can induced draft through the inside of the butt joint mouth that induced drafts to the box, again because the filter box is located the inside of box, and with the interior wall connection of box, the dirt suction butt joint mouth that filter box and box inner wall were seted up communicates, the dirt suction is connected with the soil pick-up pipe to the kneck, thereby, when the device that induced drafts through the inside of the butt joint mouth to the box, make the inside negative pressure that forms of box, the soil pick-up pipe inhales remaining sewage in the ground into the sewage pick-up pipe through pressure differential, remaining sewage in the ground gets into the filter box through the butt joint mouth that inhales, the filter box filters debris in with sewage, make debris stay in the filter box, sewage then flows out the inside that the filter box got into the box, thereby avoid the device that induced drafts to inhale debris in the sewage to the inside of box, prevent debris shutoff box butt joint mouth, avoid influencing the normal work of cleaning robot. Because the device that induced drafts can induced draft through the butt joint mouth that induced drafts to the inside of box, because the fly leaf is located the inside of box again, and rotate with the lateral wall of box and be connected, the buoyancy of the inside water of box can make the fly leaf rotate, with the shutoff or open the butt joint mouth that induced drafts, therefore, when the inside water yield of water tank is more, the buoyancy of water makes the fly leaf rotate to induced draft to the kneck for the lateral wall of box, thereby the shutoff is induced drafted to the butt joint mouth, when preventing that the device that induced drafts from induced drafting from inhaling, inhale water and induced draft to the butt joint mouth, avoid the device that induced drafts to damage because of intaking. When the inside water yield of water tank is less, the buoyancy of water is not enough to make the fly leaf rotate to induced draft to the kneck, consequently, the fly leaf does not influence the device work that induced drafts, and cleaning machines people can normally wash the ground work.

In one embodiment, the air suction device comprises an air suction portion and an air suction pipe, one end of the air suction pipe is connected with the air suction portion, the other end of the air suction pipe is communicated with the air suction butt joint, and the air suction portion is used for sucking air for the air suction pipe.

In one embodiment, a cartridge comprises:

the box body is connected with the inner wall of the box body, and is provided with a containing tank for containing sundries sucked by the sewage suction pipe; and

and the filtering piece is used for blocking sundries.

In one embodiment, the inside of the box is provided with:

the clean water cavity is communicated with a water adding butt joint opening formed in the box body, and the water adding butt joint opening is connected with a water inlet pipe; and

with clear water chamber divided sewage chamber, sewage chamber and soil pick-up interface intercommunication, and sewage chamber and the interface intercommunication that induced drafts, the filter box is located the sewage chamber, and the fly leaf is located the sewage chamber.

In one embodiment, the water tank further comprises a water pumping part which is communicated with the inside of the clear water cavity and used for pumping clear water in the clear water cavity, the water pumping part is communicated with a drainage butt joint arranged on the clear water cavity, and a drainage pipe is connected to the drainage butt joint.

In one embodiment, the water tank further comprises a first liquid level detection device, and the first liquid level detection device is installed in the sewage cavity and used for detecting a first liquid level inside the sewage cavity and transmitting a detection result to the control device in the workstation.

In one embodiment, the first liquid level detection device comprises:

the first detection piece is arranged on the movable plate; and

the first sensor, first sensor set up in the chamber wall in sewage chamber, and the fly leaf drives first detection piece motion when rotating, and when first detection piece moved to first sensor department, first sensor detected first detection piece, then showed that the water in sewage intracavity portion has arrived first liquid level, and first sensor transmits the testing result to the controlling means in the workstation.

In one embodiment, the water tank further comprises a second liquid level detection device, and the second liquid level detection device is installed in the clean water cavity and used for detecting a second liquid level inside the clean water cavity and sending a detection result to the control device in the workstation.

In one embodiment, the second liquid level detecting device includes:

the second detection piece is arranged in the clear water cavity and used for moving along with the buoyancy of the water in the clear water cavity; and

the second sensor is arranged on the wall of the clean water cavity, when the second detection piece moves to the second sensor, the second sensor detects the second detection piece, the second sensor indicates that water in the clean water cavity reaches a second liquid level, and the second sensor transmits a detection result to the control device in the workstation.

An embodiment of the application still provides a robot, and the robot includes workstation, robot body and the water tank of any one of above-mentioned embodiment, and the water tank is connected with the robot body, and the workstation is used for controlling the robot body motion.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a water tank according to an embodiment;

FIG. 2 is another schematic view of the movable plate of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the water tank;

FIG. 4 is another cross-sectional view of the water tank;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing the connection relationship between the second detecting member and the connecting member in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an expanded view of the case of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of the water tank body in FIG. 6;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of the housing in fig. 6.

Description of reference numerals:

a water tank 100;

a case 110; an air suction interface 101; an air suction pipe 111; a soil pick-up interface 102; a soil suction pipe 112; a clear water chamber 103; interface 104 is connected by adding water; an inlet pipe 113; a sewage chamber 105; a drain interface 106; a drain pipe 114; a blowdown interface 107; a drain 115; a switch 116;

a tank body 117; a manual filler 109; a manual drain 1171; a first locking member 1172; a second lock 1173;

a housing 118; a cavity 108;

a movable plate 120;

a filter cartridge 130; a case 131; a filter member 132;

a suction pipe 141; a filter head 1411;

a first detecting member 151;

a second liquid level detection device 160; the second detecting member 161; a second sensor 162;

a connecting member 170.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, embodiments accompanying figures are described in detail below. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "central," "longitudinal," "transverse," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the invention and to simplify the description, but are not intended to indicate or imply that the device or element so referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or to implicitly indicate the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through an intermediate. Also, a first feature "on," "above," and "over" a second feature may be directly on or obliquely above the second feature, or simply mean that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "upper," "lower," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and do not denote a unique embodiment.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 7, an embodiment of the present invention provides a water tank 100, wherein the water tank 100 includes a tank body 110, a suction device, a movable plate 120 and a filter cartridge 130.

The case 110 is used to be coupled to the robot body, and the inside of the case 110 is used to contain water. The air suction device is communicated with the air suction butt joint port 101 formed in the side wall of the box body 110, and air suction can be performed on the interior of the box body 110. The movable plate 120 is located inside the box body 110 and is rotatably connected to a sidewall of the box body 110, and the buoyancy of the water inside the box body 110 can rotate the movable plate 120 to close or open the suction docking port 101. The filter box 130 is located inside the box body 110 and connected to the inner wall of the box body 110, the filter box 130 is communicated with the sewage suction interface 102 formed on the inner wall of the box body 110, the sewage suction pipe 112 is connected to the sewage suction interface 102, and the filter box 130 can filter impurities sucked by the sewage suction pipe 112.

When the water tank 100 is installed in the robot body for washing the floor, the tank 110 is connected to the robot body, and the inside of the tank 110 is used for containing water. When washing ground, at first spray the clear water of box 110 inside to ground, the robot body is through spraying to the round brush of robot body installation on, drenches the round brush, and the round brush carries out ground cleaning work, washes ground after finishing, inhales the remaining sewage in ground to water tank 100 in through the device that induced drafts for ground keeps dry, accomplishes and washes ground work. Because the air suction device is communicated with the air suction butt joint port 101 formed in the side wall of the box body 110, air can be sucked into the box body 110 through the air suction butt joint port 101, the filter box 130 is located inside the box body 110 and is connected with the inner wall of the box body 110, the filter box 130 is communicated with the sewage suction butt joint port 102 formed in the inner wall of the box body 110, and a sewage suction pipe 112 is connected to the sewage suction butt joint port 102, so that when the air suction device sucks air into the box body 110 through the air suction butt joint port 101, negative pressure is formed inside the box body 110, the sewage suction pipe 112 sucks residual sewage on the ground into the sewage suction pipe 112 through pressure difference, the residual sewage on the ground enters the filter box 130 through the sewage suction butt joint port 102, the filter box 130 filters the sewage, impurities are left in the filter box 130, the sewage flows out of the filter box 130 and enters the inside of the box body 110, thereby preventing the air suction device from sucking the impurities in the sewage into the box body 110, preventing the impurity from blocking the butt joint port in the box body 110, and avoiding influencing the normal work of a cleaning robot. Because the device that induced drafts can induced draft through the inside of the butt joint mouth 101 that induced drafts to box 110, because the fly leaf 120 is located the inside of box 110 again, and rotate with the lateral wall of box 110 and be connected, the buoyancy of the inside water of box 110 can make fly leaf 120 rotate, with the shutoff or open the butt joint mouth 101 that induced drafts, therefore, when the inside water yield of water tank 100 is more, the buoyancy of water makes fly leaf 120 rotate to the butt joint mouth 101 department that induced drafts for the lateral wall of box 110, thereby the shutoff is induced drafted to butt joint mouth 101, when preventing the device that induced drafts from induced drafting, with water suction butt joint mouth 101, avoid the device that induced drafts to damage because of intaking. When the amount of water in the water tank 100 is small, the buoyancy of the water is not enough to rotate the movable plate 120 to the suction port 101, so that the movable plate 120 does not affect the operation of the suction device, and the cleaning robot can perform the ground washing operation normally.

In one embodiment, the air suction device includes an air suction portion (not shown) and an air suction pipe 111, one end of the air suction pipe 111 is connected to the air suction portion, and the other end is communicated with the air suction interface 101, and the air suction portion is used for sucking air into the air suction pipe 111.

Specifically, aspiration channel 111 one end is connected with the portion of induced drafting, and the other end with induced draft interface 101 intercommunication to the portion of induced drafting induced drafts air suction pipe 111, and then induced drafts to the inside of box 110 through induced draft interface 101, makes the inside negative pressure that forms of box 110, thereby soil pick-up pipe 112 inhales the inside of box 110 with the remaining sewage in ground.

In this embodiment, the air suction part is a fan.

In other embodiments, the air suction portion may also be of other air suction structures, as long as it can suck air into the interior of the box body 110 and suck sewage into the interior of the box body 110.

Referring to fig. 1, in one embodiment, the filter cartridge 130 includes a cartridge body 131 and a filter element 132. The box body 131 is connected with the inner wall of the box body 110, and the box body 131 is provided with a holding tank for holding sundries sucked by the sewage suction pipe 112. The filter member 132 serves to block foreign materials.

Specifically, when sewage remaining on the ground enters the inside of the box body 110 through the sewage suction docking port 102, the sewage first enters the accommodating groove of the box body 131, impurities contained in the sewage are blocked by the filtering member 132 and cannot enter the inside of the box body 110, and the sewage stays in the accommodating groove, and then flows through the filtering member 132 and enters the inside of the box body 110.

In an embodiment, the holding tank is the through-hole, and the both ends of through-hole are provided with respectively and filter piece 132, have two to filter piece 132 promptly, and two filter piece 132 and box body 131 enclose into the holding tank to sewage can get into the inside of box 110 through the both ends of holding tank, has improved the soil pick-up efficiency.

In this embodiment, the filter element 132 is a porous screen.

In other embodiments, the filter member 132 may be another filter structure, such as another loose porous structure, as long as it can block the impurities from entering the inside of the box body 110 and allow the sewage to flow into the inside of the box body 110.

Referring to fig. 3, 4 and 7, in an embodiment, a clean water chamber 103 and a sewage chamber 105 separated from the clean water chamber 103 are disposed inside the box body 110. The clean water cavity 103 is communicated with a water adding butt joint port 104 arranged on the box body 110, and the water adding butt joint port 104 is connected with a water inlet pipe 113. The sewage chamber 105 is communicated with the sewage suction interface 102, the sewage chamber 105 is communicated with the air suction interface 101, the filter box 130 is located in the sewage chamber 105, and the movable plate 120 is located in the sewage chamber 105.

Specifically, because the inside part of box 110 is clear water chamber 103 and sewage chamber 105, clear water chamber 103 and sewage chamber 105 separate each other to clear water chamber 103 can hold the clear water, and sewage chamber 105 then can hold sewage, and sewage and clear water separate each other, and sewage can not pollute the clear water like this. When the floor is washed, the clean water in the clean water cavity 103 is sprayed on the rolling brush arranged on the robot body, the rolling brush is wetted, and the rolling brush performs floor cleaning work. When sewage is sucked, the sewage is sucked into the sewage suction pipe 112 through the air suction device, and the sewage enters the sewage cavity 105 through the sewage suction docking port 102, so that the sewage is stored.

Because the clear water cavity 103 is communicated with the water adding butt joint port 104, and the water adding butt joint port 104 is connected with the water inlet pipe 113, when the robot runs out of clear water in the clear water cavity 103 in the floor washing process, the clear water can return to the workstation, and the workstation adds clear water to the clear water cavity 103 through the water inlet pipe 113. Because the air suction butt joint port 101 is communicated with the sewage cavity 105, the movable plate 120 is positioned in the sewage cavity 105, so that when more sewage exists in the sewage cavity 105, the movable plate 120 can block the air suction butt joint port 101, and the sewage is prevented from entering the air suction device.

In an embodiment, the water tank 100 further includes a water pumping unit (not shown) connected to the interior of the clean water chamber 103 for pumping clean water from the interior of the clean water chamber 103, the water pumping unit is connected to a drainage interface 106 formed in the clean water chamber 103, and a drainage pipe 114 is connected to the drainage interface 106.

Specifically, because the clear water chamber 103 is inside to be used for holding the clear water, the portion of drawing water and the inside intercommunication of clear water chamber 103 to be used for extracting the inside clear water in clear water chamber 103, thereby when needs are washed ground, through the inside clear water of the portion extraction clear water chamber 103 that draws water, the clear water passes through the drainage and gets into drain pipe 114 to interface 106, flows out from drain pipe 114, sprays to the round brush of robot body installation on, drenches the round brush, and the round brush carries out ground cleaning work.

Referring to fig. 4, in an embodiment, the water pumping portion includes a pump body (not shown) and a water pumping pipe 141, one end of the water pumping pipe 141 is communicated with the interior of the clean water cavity 103, and the other end is communicated with the water draining interface 106, the pump body is used for pumping water to the water pumping pipe 141, so that clean water enters the water pumping pipe 141, and then enters the water draining pipe 114 through the water draining interface 106, and is sprayed onto the roller brush installed on the robot body.

Referring to fig. 4, in an embodiment, the water pumping pipe 141 is fixedly connected to the bottom wall of the clean water chamber 103, and the water pumping pipe 141 has a filter 1411, so that clean water enters the water pumping pipe 141 through the filter 1411, and the water pumping pipe 141 can pump clean water at the bottom of the clean water chamber 103.

Referring to fig. 4 and 7, in an embodiment, the sewage cavity 105 is further provided with a sewage abutting joint 107, and a sewage discharge pipe 115 is connected to the sewage abutting joint 107, so that after the robot body returns to the workstation, the workstation controls the sewage discharge pipe 115 to open, so that sewage in the sewage cavity 105 can flow out through the sewage discharge pipe 115.

Referring to fig. 4 and 7, in one embodiment, the water tank 100 further comprises a switch 116 connected to the sewage pipe, and the workstation is used for controlling the switch 116 to be turned on and off, so as to control the sewage pipe 115 to be turned on and off.

Specifically, when the amount of sewage stored in the sewage chamber 105 is large, the workstation control switch 116 opens the sewage discharge pipe 115, so that the sewage in the sewage chamber 105 flows into the sewage discharge pipe 115 through the sewage discharge interface 107 and is discharged from the sewage discharge pipe 115, and after the sewage is discharged, the workstation control switch 116 closes the sewage discharge pipe 115, thereby preventing the cleaning machine from leaking during operation.

In one embodiment, the sewage interface 107 is disposed on the bottom wall of the sewage cavity 105, so as to facilitate sewage drainage and to drain the sewage as much as possible at one time.

In this embodiment, the switch 116 is a solenoid valve.

In an embodiment, the water tank 100 further comprises a first liquid level detection device (not shown) mounted in the sewage chamber 105 for detecting a first liquid level inside the sewage chamber 105 and sending the detection result to the control device in the workstation.

Specifically, when the first detection device detects the first liquid level inside the sewage cavity 105, the detection result is transmitted to the control device in the workstation, and the control device in the workstation controls the robot body to return to the workstation, and controls to open the sewage discharge pipe 115 to discharge the sewage inside the sewage cavity 105.

Referring to fig. 1, in an embodiment, the first liquid level detecting device includes a first detecting member 151 and a first sensor (not shown). The first detecting member 151 is disposed on the movable plate 120. First sensor sets up in the chamber wall in sewage chamber 105, when fly leaf 120 rotates, drive first detection piece 151 motion, when first detection piece 151 moves to first sensor department, first sensor detects first detection piece 151, then indicate that the inside sewage in sewage chamber 105 has arrived first liquid level, first sensor transmits the testing result to the controlling means in the workstation, thereby controlling means control robot in the workstation returns the workstation, and the control is opened blow off pipe 115 and is discharged the inside sewage in sewage chamber 105.

In this embodiment, two first sensors are included, one of the first sensors is disposed at the lowest liquid level, the other one is disposed at the highest liquid level, and when the first sensor at the lowest liquid level detects the first detecting member, it indicates that the amount of sewage in the sewage chamber 105 is small at this time, and the floor washing operation can be continued. When the first sensor at the highest liquid level detects the first detection piece, it indicates that the amount of sewage in the sewage chamber 105 reaches the first liquid level, indicates that the amount of sewage in the sewage chamber 105 is large and needs to be discharged as soon as possible, and transmits the detection result to the control device in the workstation.

In this embodiment, the first detecting member 151 is a permanent magnet, and the first sensor is a hall sensor.

In other embodiments, other detection modes are also possible, such as photosensor detection and the like.

Referring to fig. 3-5, in an embodiment, the water tank 100 further includes a second liquid level detecting device 160, and the second liquid level detecting device 160 is installed in the clean water cavity 103, and is configured to detect a second liquid level inside the clean water cavity 103 and send a detection result to the control device in the workstation.

Specifically, when the second detection device detects the second liquid level inside the clear water cavity 103, the detection result is transmitted to the control device in the workstation, and the control device in the workstation controls the robot body to return to the workstation, and adds water to the clear water cavity 103 through the water inlet pipe 113.

Referring to fig. 3-5, in an embodiment, the second liquid level detecting device 160 includes a second detecting element 161 and a second sensor 162. The second detecting member 161 is disposed in the clean water chamber 103, and the second detecting member 161 is configured to move with the buoyancy of the water in the clean water chamber 103. The second sensor 162 is arranged on the cavity wall of the clean water cavity 103, when the second detection part 161 moves to the second sensor 162, the second sensor 162 detects the second detection part 161, which indicates that the water in the clean water cavity 103 reaches the second liquid level, and the second sensor 162 transmits the detection result to the control device in the workstation, so that the control device in the workstation controls the robot body to return to the workstation, and adds water to the clean water cavity 103 through the water inlet pipe 113.

In this embodiment, two second liquid level detection devices 160 are included, one of which is disposed at the lowest liquid level, the other of which is disposed at the highest liquid level,

when the second sensor 162 at the lowest liquid level detects the corresponding second detecting element 161, it indicates that the clean water amount in the clean water chamber 103 reaches the second liquid level, and indicates that the clean water in the clean water chamber 103 is less, and the ground cleaning operation cannot be continued, and the result is transmitted to the control device in the workstation. When the second sensor 162 at the highest liquid level detects the corresponding second detecting element 161, it indicates that the amount of clean water in the clean water chamber 103 is large, and the requirement for washing the floor can be met.

In other embodiments, other detection modes are also possible, such as photoelectric sensor detection and the like.

In one embodiment, the control device in the workstation may be a single chip, a controller, a mobile terminal, or the like.

Referring to fig. 3-5, in an embodiment, the water tank 100 further includes a connecting member 170, the connecting member 170 is connected to an inner wall of the water tank 100, and the second detecting member 161 is slidably engaged with the connecting member 170, so that when the water amount in the clean water chamber 103 is small, the second detecting member 161 at the lowest liquid level moves down along the connecting member 170, and when the water amount moves down to the position of the second sensor 162 corresponding to the second detecting member 161, it indicates that the liquid level in the clean water chamber 103 is at the second liquid level at this time, and it is necessary to add water as soon as possible. When the amount of water in the clean water chamber 103 is large, the buoyancy of the water causes the second detecting member 161 at the highest liquid level to move upwards along the connecting member 170, and when the water moves upwards to the position of the second sensor 162 corresponding to the second detecting member 161, it indicates that the amount of water in the clean water chamber 103 is large at this time, and the ground cleaning requirement is met.

Referring to fig. 6 to 8, the tank 110 includes a housing 118, a tank body 117, and a locking structure. The housing 118 is used for connecting with the robot body, and the housing 118 is provided with a concave cavity 108. The tank body 117 is located in the cavity 108, water is contained in the tank body 117, the locking structure is used for locking or releasing the tank body 117, and when the locking structure locks the tank body 117, the tank body 117 and the shell 118 are fixedly connected. When the locking structure releases the tank body 117, the tank body 117 and the case 118 can move relatively.

Specifically, the housing 118 is connected with the robot body, the housing 118 is provided with a cavity 108, the water tank body 117 is located in the cavity 108, and the water tank body 117 and the housing 118 are locked by a locking structure, so that the water tank body 117 and the housing 118 are fixedly connected. At this moment, the robot is when washing ground, because water tank body 117 and casing 118 fixed connection to when the robot takes place to rock and the striking, the relative position of water tank body 117 and casing 118 can not change, and the water in water tank 100 can not take place to leak outward yet, thereby when induced draft the device and to the inside wind-suction of water tank body 117, make the inside negative pressure that forms of water tank body 117, and then suction pipe 112 is inside with subaerial sewage suction water tank body 117 through the pressure differential. After the water tank body 117 is used for a long time, a large amount of dirt can be stored in the water tank body 117, so that the inside of the water tank body 117 needs to be cleaned, at the moment, the water tank body 117 and the shell 118 are released through the locking component, so that the water tank body 117 and the shell 118 can move relatively, the water tank body 117 can be taken out from the groove of the shell 118, and the inside of the water tank body 117 is cleaned in an all-round mode. When the water tank body 117 is detached and installed in the mode, the water tank body 117 and the shell 118 are released only through the locking component, or the water tank body 117 and the shell 118 are locked through the locking component, so that the water tank body 117 can be detached and installed quickly, and the operation is convenient.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, in an embodiment, the locking structure includes a first locking member 1172 and a second locking member 1173, the first locking member 1172 is connected to the tank body 117, the second locking member 1173 is connected to the housing 118, and the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 correspond to each other. The first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 have a locking state and a releasing state, when the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 are in the locking state, the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 are fixedly connected, and when the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 are in the releasing state, the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 can be moved relative to each other.

Specifically, since the first locking member 1172 is connected to the water tank body 117, the second locking member 1173 is connected to the housing 118, and the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 correspond to each other one by one, when the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 are in a locking state, the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 are fixedly connected, so that the water tank body 117 and the housing 118 are indirectly fixedly connected, and water in the water tank body 117 is prevented from leaking outside. When the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 are in the release state, the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 can move relatively, so that the water tank body 117 and the shell 118 can move relatively, and the water tank body 117 can be taken out of the cavity 108, and the inside of the water tank body 117 can be cleaned.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, in one embodiment, one of the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 is an electromagnet, and the other is a magnetic attraction piece, so that when the electromagnet is powered on, the magnetism disappears, and when the electromagnet is powered off, the magnetism exists.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the first locking member 1172 and the second locking member 1173 are magnetic attraction pieces, and when the electromagnet is powered on, the magnetism of the electromagnet disappears, and at this time, the magnetic attraction pieces and the electromagnet are in a release state, and can move with each other, so that the water tank body 117 and the housing 118 can move with each other. When the electromagnet is powered off, the electromagnet and the magnetic attraction piece are fixedly connected through magnetic force, at the moment, the electromagnet and the magnetic attraction piece are in a locking state, the magnetic attraction piece is fixedly connected with the electromagnet, and then the water tank body 117 is fixedly connected with the shell 118.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, in an embodiment, the water tank body 117 further has a manual water adding port 109 and a manual sewage draining port (not shown), the manual water adding port 109 is provided with a plug, and the manual sewage draining port is connected with a manual sewage draining pipe 1171. When the workstation damages, when unable for robot body adds the clear water, the staff extracts the stopper, adds water from manual filler 109, need not the workstation operation, also can continue to wash ground work. When the workstation damages, during unable drainage water tank body 117 inside sewage, the staff opens manual blow off pipe 1171 to sewage can flow into manual blow off pipe 1171 through manual drain, and then discharge water tank body 117.

An embodiment of the application further provides a robot, the robot comprises a workstation, a robot body and the water tank 100 of any one of the embodiments, the water tank 100 is connected with the robot body, and the workstation is used for controlling the robot body to move.

When the robot is used for washing the floor, the case 110 is connected to the robot body, and the inside of the case 110 is used for containing water. When washing the ground, at first spray the brush that the robot body was installed with the inside clear water of box 110 on, drench the brush, the brush carries out ground cleaning work, washes the end back, inhales the remaining sewage in water tank 100 on ground through the device that induced drafts for ground keeps dry, accomplishes and washes ground work. Because the air suction device is communicated with the air suction butt joint port 101 formed in the side wall of the box body 110, air can be sucked into the box body 110 through the air suction butt joint port 101, the filter box 130 is located in the box body 110 and is connected with the inner wall of the box body 110, the filter box 130 is communicated with the sewage suction butt joint port 102 formed in the inner wall of the box body 110, and the sewage suction butt joint port 102 is connected with the sewage suction pipe 112, so that when the air suction device sucks air into the box body 110 through the air suction butt joint port 101, negative pressure is formed in the box body 110, the sewage suction pipe 112 sucks residual sewage on the ground into the sewage residual in the sewage suction pipe 112 through pressure difference, the residual sewage enters the filter box 130 through the sewage suction butt joint port 102, the filter box 130 filters impurities in the sewage, the impurities are left in the filter box 130, the sewage flows out of the filter box 130 and enters the box body 110, the impurities in the sewage are prevented from being sucked into the box body 110 by the air suction device, the impurity blockage of the butt joint port in the box body 110 is prevented, and the normal work of a cleaning robot is prevented from being influenced. Because the device that induced drafts can induced draft through the inside of the butt joint mouth 101 that induced drafts to box 110, because the fly leaf 120 is located the inside of box 110 again, and rotate with the lateral wall of box 110 and be connected, the buoyancy of the inside water of box 110 can make fly leaf 120 rotate, with the shutoff or open the butt joint mouth 101 that induced drafts, therefore, when the inside water yield of water tank 100 is more, the buoyancy of water makes fly leaf 120 rotate to the butt joint mouth 101 department that induced drafts for the lateral wall of box 110, thereby the shutoff is induced drafted to butt joint mouth 101, when preventing the device that induced drafts from induced drafting, with water suction butt joint mouth 101, avoid the device that induced drafts to damage because of intaking. When the amount of water in the water tank 100 is small, the buoyancy of the water is not enough to rotate the movable plate 120 to the suction port 101, so that the movable plate 120 does not affect the operation of the suction device, and the cleaning robot can perform the ground washing operation normally.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that various changes and modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention, and these changes and modifications are all within the scope of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. A water tank, characterized in that the water tank comprises:

the movable plate is positioned in the box body and is rotationally connected with the side wall of the box body, and the buoyancy of water in the box body can enable the movable plate to rotate so as to seal or open the air suction butt joint port; and

the filter box, the filter box is located the inside of box, and with the interior wall connection of box, just the filter box with the soil pick-up butt joint mouth intercommunication of seting up on the inner wall of box, soil pick-up butt joint department is connected with the soil pick-up pipe, the filter box can filter the debris that the soil pick-up pipe was inhaled.

2. The water tank of claim 1, wherein the air suction device comprises an air suction portion and an air suction pipe, one end of the air suction pipe is connected with the air suction portion, the other end of the air suction pipe is communicated with the air suction butt joint opening, and the air suction portion is used for sucking air to the air suction pipe.

3. The water tank as claimed in claim 1, wherein the filter cartridge comprises:

the box body is connected with the inner wall of the box body, and is provided with a containing groove which is used for containing sundries sucked by the sewage suction pipe; and

a filter for blocking the impurities.

4. The water tank as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inside of the tank body is provided with:

the clean water cavity is communicated with a water adding butt joint formed in the box body, and a water inlet pipe is connected to the water adding butt joint; and

with clear water chamber divided sewage chamber, the sewage chamber with inhale dirty interface intercommunication, just the sewage chamber with it communicates to induced draft interface, the filter box is located the sewage chamber, the fly leaf is located the sewage chamber.

5. The water tank of claim 4, further comprising a water pumping part, wherein the water pumping part is communicated with the inside of the clean water cavity and used for pumping clean water in the clean water cavity, the water pumping part is communicated with a drainage butt joint formed in the clean water cavity, and a drainage pipe is connected to the drainage butt joint.

6. The water tank of claim 4, further comprising a first liquid level detection device mounted to the sewage chamber for detecting a first liquid level inside the sewage chamber and transmitting the detection result to a control device in a workstation.

7. The water tank as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first liquid level detecting means comprises:

the first detection piece is arranged on the movable plate; and

the first sensor is arranged on the wall of the sewage cavity, the movable plate drives the first detection piece to move when rotating, when the first detection piece moves to the position of the first sensor, the first sensor detects the first detection piece, the first sensor indicates that water in the sewage cavity reaches the first liquid level, and the first sensor transmits a detection result to the control device in the workstation.

8. The water tank as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a second liquid level detection device mounted in the clear water chamber for detecting a second liquid level inside the clear water chamber and sending the detection result to a control device in a workstation.

9. The water tank as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second liquid level detecting means comprises:

the second detection piece is arranged in the clean water cavity and used for moving along with the buoyancy of the water in the clean water cavity; and

the second sensor is arranged on the cavity wall of the clean water cavity, when the second detection piece moves to the second sensor, the second sensor detects the second detection piece, the second sensor indicates that the water in the clean water cavity reaches the second liquid level, and the second sensor transmits the detection result to the control device in the workstation.

10. A robot comprising a workstation, a robot body and a water tank as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9, the water tank being connected to the robot body, the workstation being arranged to control the movement of the robot body.